Global icon Rihanna and sports company PUMA have officially launched their newest product franchise together.  Rihanna returns to the brand as the Creative Director of FENTY x PUMA with a multi-year partnership and several product launches in the pipeline.  The return of FENTY x PUMA blends PUMA’s deep history and heritage in sport with Rihanna’s iconic stature as a leader in music, culture and fashion. The FENTY x PUMA Avanti, the first footwear franchise of the partnership, is an unconventional mix of two PUMA icons blending the high-quality leather design of the King football boot with the outsole of the...

PUMA is marking the return of the Palermo, a terrace legend and a shoe that pays homage to the coastal capital of the island of Sicily.   After being teased by PUMA collaborator and ambassador Dua Lipa earlier in 2023, the Palermo OG is now set to make its official return. This storied low-top originally made its debut in 1980s football stadiums, where it was a staple amongst the terrace crowd.   PUMA’s 2023 bring-back features the shoe’s original blue-and-white colorway, complete with a retro T-toe construction, a classic gum sole, and the shoe’s signature tag featuring PUMA lettering in...

Global sports brand PUMA is officially marking its presence in the Philippines with an exclusive preview of its autumn/winter collection, which will be available in the market starting July this year. Inspired by its FOREVER FASTER mantra, PUMA’s invite-only AW23 collection preview party was a brazen ode and homage to the streets and humans of Manila.   PUMA opened its first flagship store last November 2022 in Glorietta, Makati City and now has 22 franchise stores nationwide. As part of its expansion plans in the market, the German sports brand will open a few new stores in this quarter, serving...

As Adidas and Yohji Yamamoto usher in a new era of their industry-defining partnership, Y-3 returns to present its latest seasonal offering. Defiantly projecting a distinct vision of tomorrow, for Spring/Summer 2023 Chapter 2 the brand continues its lineage of renegade dynamism, boldly exploring the concept of “Technical Effortlessness''. Recontextualizing its own signature archetypes, Y-3 subversively reimagines an array of garments, footwear, and accessories with highly functional details and silhouettes.   Inspired by the Japanese designer’s own legacy of utilitarian workwear garments, Chapter 2 sees Y-3 revisit two core tenets of the brand’s quintessential arsenal: outdoors ready design and functional detailing....

  Breaking free from the usual runway get-up, Bella Hadid stunned the world with her spray-painted dress in the Coperini’s Fashion show last Friday, September 30. Ending the show with a bang, the supermodel stood naked on the runway, wearing only a nude thong. The men quickly worked their way to mold the dress around her body as she elegantly posed for the crowd.     This dramatic stunt was a homage to Alexander McQueen’s spring/summer 1999 show where Shalom Harlow stood on a spinning platform wearing a white strapless dress while robots painted her dress in real-time.     ...